Editing or deleting date & time stamp from digital photo

[wpshooter]

When I took a photo with my digital camera the date & time were off/incorect by about 1 day.

Is there any way that I can either change/edit/correct the date/time on the digital copy of the photo or just get rid of the date and time stamp altogether (and I don't want to chop off the lower area of the photo where the date & time stamp are located because there is material directly to the right of the date & time that I want to be in the printed copy of the photo) ?

Thanks.

 

[nickbits]

The metadata or is the date on the photo itself? Metadata can be corrected within file properties or Windows photo gallery, if it is the photo, you need Photoshop or something. I've used Photoshop to fix the date on about 100+ or so photos, it wasn't as tedious as I thought it would be.

 

[CuriousMike]

Paint.net would help you stamp the embedded date out of the photo.

 

[whateverid]

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/Exif-Date-Changer.shtml try this

 

[corkyg]

Just Google EXIF Edit and you will find many choices, many free.

 

[Berliner]

I think you are looking for a clone/heal tool to fix a part of your photo.

Gimp has both: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-heal.html and is free to download http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

 

[Imp]

I did some official stuff a few years ago but forgot to turn on the date (required)... so I put it in using Paint. Wasn't misrepresenting anything, and I could have just as easily changed it on the camera itself before taking the photos, so I didn't see a problem.

 

[wpshooter]

I think you are looking for a clone/heal tool to fix a part of your photo.

Gimp has both: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-heal.html and is free to download http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

I tried both the erase and the heal feature in Gimp and perhaps I just do not know what I am doing or am not much of an artist because the result looked like cra?. The color of the touched area where the date & time stamp had been did NOT match the surrounding area of the photo, i.e. was generally too dark (was pulling from background area just next to the time & date stamp).

Is there anywhere in these programs such as Gimp or others, wherein the time & date stamps is give a component name / field name whereby it can be addressed and edited or removed as a complete component/unit from the photo ?

Thanks.

 

[wpshooter]

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/Exif-Date-Changer.shtml try this

Is there a Linux version of this ?

Thanks.

 

[wpshooter]

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/Exif-Date-Changer.shtml try this

Is this program for changing the FILE creation date or for changing the Time & Date stamp placed in a digital photo which was taken via a digital CAMERA ?

Thanks.

 

[CuriousMike]

You might be better served using Google Picasa; I think there's even a Linux version.
Example of cloning: http://youtu.be/Np0A8TiwsuY?t=6m26s

 

[nickbits]

Photoshop patch tool is what I used

 

[Berliner]

I tried both the erase and the heal feature in Gimp and perhaps I just do not know what I am doing or am not much of an artist because the result looked like cra?.

They can't do one click magic, unfortunately. You have to try with different brush sizes, different starting areas etc.

And I don't know any tool that automates healing something changing from arbitrary backgrounds (in a good looking way). That is even closer to magic.

 

[sswingle]

In most cases you are probably better off cropping it out.